The case is the latest stage in a protracted effort from the organisations to challenge the UK’s extremely wide-ranging surveillance powers following startling revelations by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.

“The ISC has repeatedly shown itself as a simple mouthpiece for the spooks – so clueless and ineffective that it’s only thanks to Edward Snowden that it had the slightest clue of the agencies’ antics."

Enough! It’s time to fight back against out-of-control state surveillance. Liberty has joined the Don’t Spy On Us coalition – a group of organisations defending privacy, free expression and digital rights. We’ve come together to combat the breathtaking, unfettered surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden.

Liberty has announced it will represent an international coalition of partner human rights organisations in a new legal claim against the British Intelligence Services over their role in the ongoing privacy scandal.